"Use other words please."

maybe it's just hockey but i am tired of hearing "highly coveted" re: draft picks and/or players.

also i hate (and this one must be baseball specific): Halfties. Which may be made up (I found it when doing an urbandictionary search for frozen rope)

"can o' corn"

"ball one as he balloons the fastball upstairs"

calling bases "sacks", ie, "ground ball to the second sacker"

hanging offspeed pitch = "that was like a rising soap bubble"

El Duque's 50-60 MPH curve/offspeeder = "the bugs bunny curve" or "the dipsy doodle"

batter coming up with the bases loaded = "he's coming to the plate with the ducks on the pond"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_jargon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_jargon_%28P%29#pick_me_up

pick me up

Often said by a hitter who has just made an out, to the next hitter, usually with ducks on the pond. In effect the player is saying, "Please succeed where I have failed (so I don't get blamed for failing to knock in the runner)."

There's a sudden dull pain in the back of my head.

hard hit single: "that ball had some serious english on it"

barely related Uecker quote: "The bases are loaded, like I wish I was"

hard hit single: "that ball had some serious english on it"

hmmm, "english" would mean to me that it had a serious curve to it. like in pool when you strike the cue on one side of the vertical axis to give it some spin?

actually the ball in question did have some spin on it.

There are some Two-way words, like it’s okay for Curt Gowdy to say ‘Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.’ But he can’t say, ‘I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don’t you? He’s holding them. He must have hurt them by God.’

RIP

TILT

Scouting lingo : "(type of pitch) sits at (speed of pitch)"

"Speed guy" (why not "base stealer"?), often heard on Baseball Tonight and on MLB Network.

Not sure how that caught on.

first-to-third speed often > base stealing

anything but "difference-maker"

Pretty sure I heard aaron Boone use both "points on the board" and "both sides of the ball" last night. Wrong sport, dipshit.

"professional hitter" (aka "marginal veteran")

Referring to a slider as a "slide-piece."

GAHHHH

"unanswered runs" and its variations always bugs me.

"crooked numbers"

― Andy K, Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:42 PM (4 years ago)

ugh ugh ugh, hate this one -- esp when it comes out of Chip Caray's mouth.

"toe the slab"

gary thorne just referred to a 'great piece of hit-and-run' after his color guy (bordick?) used 'great piece of hitting' twice in an inning

"oppo"

on the occasion of e5 losing a bat into the crowd:

"that helicoptered right into that guys dome"

Campaign

"And it's a three-RBI homer."

Calling base hits "safeties." Shut up, Chip Caray, every rain delay is your grandfather pissing down on your head.

ron darling "totally different facing roark whos a paint masterson"

can't believe you're questioning a yale product like that

just be happy you weren't told about the time he started against frank viola and the johnnies

calling players on rosters 'pieces'

"cheese at the knees"

"nibble"

calling players on rosters 'pieces'

― mookieproof, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:13 PM (two years ago)

also 'arms' and 'bats' for pitchers/ hitters

Can we at least sort out the pitchers from the catchers

The Philly Inquirer's 1921 use of "moist deliverymen" to describe spitball pitchers just sent a shudder through my entire body pic.twitter.com/uW63UYW62v

— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) March 12, 2019

"NO-NO," so fuckin' stupid

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:39 AM (eleven years ago)

otm

Montas not missing many bats early on.

— Martín Gallegos (@MartinJGallegos) May 22, 2019

"elite"

(already complained about that one on the phrases-that-annoy thread)

"I'm Ted Fucking Williams--I'm a fucking elite hitter."

It just doesn't work.

elite as an adjective? as a noun it's unavoidable and p useful in my profession (vidya games. it's what you call specialized badguys who aren't bosses but aren't nobodys)

As an adjective, meaning great, or one of the best. It just somehow seems pretentious to me.

https://i.imgur.com/UOdfGUg.jpg

stop saying 'moved' instead of 'traded'

We've had three "professional hitters" in the last three minutes.

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) October 2, 2019

Matt Stairs tribute

Is the subtext that the remaining hitters are amateur hour bush leagers?

actually i think the subtext is that they’re not very good at anything else

'part ways'

I keep seeing 'cosine' used to mean 'I also agree with this', but it has to be 'cosign', no?

I assume it's a joke?

^ cosine

it's for when you only agree tangentially

discus

the existence of 'live batting practice' and 'live hitters' implies . . .

"frozen pizza" = referring to motionless batters who are called out on strikes

Pretty sure I heard aaron Boone use (. . .) "both sides of the ball" last night. Wrong sport, dipshit.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:14 AM (thirteen years ago)

this battle is being lost but utterly otm